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[dollywobbler]

Hardly a facelift at all is it? At least the Fukang got a decent fukang facelift. I say decent...

[beko1987]

That Fukang is bleugh!

 

People have told me mine is an early facelift model due to the grille and 1994. It has an early interior though, much prefer it to the r reg late ZX I had

[trigger]

I'm having myself a meld down here, dad's fitted the new fuel pump for me on the Sierra and now it's leaking fuel from a diapham on the carb...

 

So does anyone know where I can find a carb repair kit for a 1.8 CVH?, I believe it's a Pierburg 2e3 but would that be the same repair kit for the VW's that listed on eBay?.

[holbeck]

Hardly a facelift at all is it? At least the Fukang got a decent fukang facelift. I say decent...

Err, I actually quite like that.  <<Hides>>

 

On second thoughts, if that was available through your friendly Citroen dealer for Dacia money...... I still wouldn't, but second hand after enoumous depreciation. Would!

[Ghosty]

Who are you kidding? It's Fukang terrible.

 

I saw a ZX estate in Marsden a while ago IIRC, surprised me too.

[EssDeeWon]

Currently pay around £500 to insure the Rover with Adrian Flux.  Renewal comes through, £780.  Er, how?  Just as well I'd already planned to switch provider then.

 

Headline - Adrian Flux in wanky renewal offer shock for an old car not worth alot.

[dollywobbler]

Apparently, I can dismantle the XM's headlamps and swap the internal lens around to give me left-hand drive headlamps. This actually sounds easier than trying to get the beam benders in the right place when I head to France on Monday. I just hope I don't drop the outer glass when faffing about in the ferry port...

 

It will give me a chance to remove the dead crane fly, that appeared in the offside headlamp at Cholmondogley.

[stuboy]

About 930hrs a beige 800 coupe on back of dolly of rac van...heading towards tulse hill london.

 

 

Was this u?

[stuboy]

Got in the rover and dam fag lighter is fubared.. luckly i had a fag lighter extension lead and years ago made up a fag lighter socket with crocodile clips to use off battery terminals... all hooked up until my friend dean accidently pulled of the female socket...grr.. so some insulation tape and bare wires wrapped around plug for the twat nav!!

[stuboy]

Pic..

[xtriple]

Folk round here are starting to ask questions, usually starting with 'won the lottery?'  One guy I have spoken to daily for the past two years is now 'blanking' me and various others are studiously ignoring it/me!

 

Aren't people funny!

[trigger]

A similar thing happened to me once, there was a chap locally who i used to talk and wave to me daily, then as soon as i bought that Triumph Acclaim he would just keep pointing and laughing at me...

[panhard65]

It is a weird sort of reverse snobbery, they see the badge and think that you are some sort of multi millionaire. The fact that it costs about the same as a secondhand Mondeo they just can't grasp. Finally got the fuel gauge working correctly on the Rolls now. Not only was the original tank unit buggered it had been fitted upside down. So after fitting the new one it worked backwards. Turned it round 180 deg and it is fine, now I can see how fast the fuel is disappearing.

[vulgalour]

Rover 214:  occasional smell of fuel in the cabin when lots of throttle applied.  Noticed this last night for the first time at 70mph, dropped down to about 60mph and the smell went away.  Noticed again a couple of times today when applying throttle for brisk acceleration.  No signs of leak or wetness under the car, by the fuel lines in the engine bay or the injectors and not using noticable amount more fuel than usual.

 

I suppose it could be coincidental or nothing at all, perhaps it's something specific I need to look for.  Ideas?

[Six-cylinder]

A nice surprise today when I drove my ZX TD first time since spring, it was full of diesel!

[Ghosty]

now I can see how fast the fuel is disappearing.

 

Why did you do that? You had a Rolls Royce that manufactured petrol.

[ruffgeezer]

So after a final big push yesterday, this happened today...

[Jim Bell]

Does it need a big push?

[Bear]

Mine needed a big push when it was four years old. Off the nearest cliff.

 

Still, they're probably the best-looking 4 seat cabriolet of the era, made all the more astounding for being one of the cheapest too. Fantastic to drive as well. Rose-tinted glasses have so far been resisted by two attempts to go back there, one with a blown head gasket, one with an interior so utterly disgusting vomiting in it would have been an improvement.

[vulgalour]

I'm rather partial to them with the hardtop fitted, I reckon they're a bit of a looker if the top is a contrast colour to the body.

 

 

[Bear]

Yeah, the ones I get most tempted by are yellow roadsters with the hardtop. Though yellow isn't the best colour on them, they suit red, blue or green dark metallics I think, shows the subtlety of the redesigned back end. Mk 1 front > Mk 2 though.

[dugong]

A nice surprise today when I drove my ZX TD first time since spring, it was full of diesel!

Is.........that rare? Is this the village bike ZX you lend to people?

[Six-cylinder]

Is.........that rare? Is this the village bike ZX you lend to people?

Yes that's the one I must have filled it just before I put it away, I am driving it myself now so will enjoy starting with a full tank that feels like free and 44 mpg I get from it instead of the 24mpg of my V70.

 

I did lend out my Merc 500SEC last week got it back Thursday and was told it got though £150 petrol , had a bomp from the front suspension, spongy brakes, you can't see the speedo at night because a bulb has gone and the boot soft close does not work! It’s now being fixed.

[Six-cylinder]

Is.........that rare? Is this the village bike ZX you lend to people?

The ZX looks a bit sad now it come out of storage, the paint seems flatter, the battery needed a charge and it had lost its cover so is very dirty.

[Bear]

Yes that's the one I must have filled it just before I put it away, I am driving it myself now so will enjoy starting with a full tank that feels like free and 44 mpg I get from it instead of the 24mpg of my V70.

 

I did lend out my Merc 500SEC last week got it back Thursday and was told it got though £150 petrol , had a bomp from the front suspension, spongy brakes, you can't see the speedo at night because a bulb has gone and the boot soft close does not work! It’s now being fixed.

 

I should borrow your cars. Keith lends me a car and gets it back with half the stuff tidied up or fixed! 3 of those things are exactly the sort of thing I fix. Suspension tends to be a little trickier, I never did sort the rattle on the Avantime.

[Six-cylinder]

I should borrow your cars. Keith lends me a car and gets it back with half the stuff tidied up or fixed! 3 of those things are exactly the sort of thing I fix. Suspension tends to be a little trickier, I never did sort the rattle on the Avantime.

I have a never ending supply of cars that need something or other!

[wuvvum]

Just had the blue Mondeo MOT'd.  The bill came to £200 in total - it needed a new tyre and a new rear wheel bearing (which on those is a whole hub and includes ABS sensor etc so not cheap).  I'm wondering whether it was worth it - the bloody thing now owes me about £550, which I think I'd struggle to get back if I sold it.  I'm a twat for not noticing the tyre though - if I had, I would've swapped it for the spare off the silver Mondeo and saved myself 50 quid.

[outlaw118]

Peugeot 306 saga continues; it's back at mine after stepson took it to work for one of his mates to look at...

 

I'll just briefly do the back story. Stepdaughter buys lovely 306 off Sporteh-Shit off here. Lovely. 

18 months later mot man says "do this, that & the other", jobs get done by stepson (because I couldn't be arsed with ball joints et al) When he'd finished decides to steam clean the engine and underneathy bits to see where the oil seepage is coming from. 

Pisses oil and runs like a 3 legged pig thereafter.

 

So far it's had a new sump (previous silicon repair ruined by steam-clean), a new injector (someones diagnostic thing said so) the plugs have all been pulled out, one looks like it's not firing properly.

 

now, i'm no mechanic, but at this point i would have invested in a set of leads (these are in a cassette type thing....weird) and plugs, bunged them in then hoped for the best. 

This didn't happen, so all the "experts" are scratching their heads.

 

It's down my garden sulking like an incontinent child now, somehow it's down to me to fix it. 

 

nice.

[ruffgeezer]

Try testing the little "fly loom" for the injectors, we had one of those fail in a 206 once. there is a connector under the back of the inlet manifold as well as the ones on the injectors themselves.

[cobblers]

yeah, unplug every connector you can find and check it over,  Ideally give them all a blast out with compressed air, then some Isopropyl alcohol to flush the water out, then some more air, make sure they look mint. Mini timer plugs aren't all that fantastic at keeping wet out. Can you narrow the miss down to a single cylinder when pulling plug leads off?